Pastoral Resources

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

One man's poison Ivy is another man's spinach.

In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.

For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.

Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain, subdues the rage of poison, and the plague.

Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate as a poison to the soul, however pleasant and salutary it may appear to be to the body.

Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.

The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.

Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.

This Christian poison hasn't stopped yet.

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.

I cannot put this poison on my skin. I do not use anything synthetic.

If you are a pop band, don't say you're a metal band. Poison and Warrant were about as metal as the Backstreet Boys.

I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.

There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it.

We didn't gel with Poison and the Bon Jovi. Bon Jovi was the best of the pop metal bands, but we never fit in with the hair metal stuff. We were never as hip as the Chili Peppers. We were in the middle.

Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.